Quotes About Contentment

Bí quy?t c?a h?nh phúc là bi?t ng?m nhìn m?i th? tuy?t m? trên th? gian này mà không h? quên hai gi?t d?u trên muá»—ng.

Mnogi ljudi gube male radosti nadaju?i se za veliku sre?u. -

Happiness was waiting to be chosen.

I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

If the belly is full," she said, "if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied with it.

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

Without giving up hope—that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

Scrambling for security has never brought anything but momentary joy.

It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything—not about winning or losing—but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.

WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don't even notice.

The more you just try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

Leonard Cohen once said about the benefits of many years of meditation, "The less there was of me, the happier I got." Letting

As one student said, "Lower your standards and relax as it is.